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Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Title Author Year
The Respectable Folks Henry David Thoreau 1895
Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
Boston Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson
Long, Too Long America Walt Whitman
Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me Walt Whitman
Not the Pilot Walt Whitman
As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods Walt Whitman
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown Walt Whitman
By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame Walt Whitman 1867
An Army Corps on the March Walt Whitman
Bivouac on a Mountain Side Walt Whitman
The Centenarian’s Story Walt Whitman
City of Ships Walt Whitman
Virginia—The West Walt Whitman
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps Walt Whitman
Song of the Banner at Daybreak Walt Whitman
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird Walt Whitman
The Damned: Our Blue Yodel No. 9 Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley 2019
First O Songs for a Prelude Walt Whitman
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You Natalie Diaz 2019

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